Gate Check

Gate Check is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by mattgierhart in PRD-driven-context-engineering.

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Install Gate Check

Copy Gate Check into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering/tree/main/.claude/skills/ghm-gate-check ~/.claude/skills/ghm-gate-check

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/ghm-gate-check/SKILL.md in mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ghm-gate-check
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Gate Check does

Gate Check validates whether a PRD stage is ready to advance by reading readiness scores and reporting PASS, WARN, or BLOCK with top blockers. Use it before moving from v0.X to v0.Y or when running /ghm-gate-check.

Gate Check is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Gate Check comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-assisted and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Gate Check

Validate whether the PRD stage is ready to advance to the next version. Delegates to the three-layer readiness scorer — SoT files → EPICs → stage — then surfaces the leverage view (what to fix first, and which EPICs it unblocks).

Workflow Overview

Compute → run scripts/readiness.py run --quiet to refresh status/readiness.json
Read → parse status/readiness.json
Report → PASS / WARN / BLOCK verdict with top blockers and causal links
Recommend → actionable next steps (always highest-leverage first)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Gate Check

What else does mattgierhart publish alongside Gate Check?
Gate Check is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Design, Competitive Landscape Mapping and Environment Setup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Gate Check does, and is maintained by mattgierhart in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering page.
How does Gate Check compare to other Automation skills?
Gate Check ranks #1909 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Gate Check against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.